In the wake of 28-year-old Dylan Farrow accusing her father Woody Allen of sexually assaulting her when she was seven years old, Allen has penned his own opinion piece for the New York Times rebutting the allegations.

In a piece titled “Woody Allen Speaks Out,” Allen writes “TWENTY-ONE years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn’t give it a second thought.” He goes on to write ” The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn’t even hire a lawyer to defend myself.”

A representative for Mia Farrow didn’t return a request for comment.

In 1997 Woody Allen married Soon-Yi, the adopted daughter of Farrow, and the tabloid scandal broke apart the family. In Farrow’s child custody suit with Allen, she alleged that Allen had molested the couple’s adopted daughter, Dylan, but Allen denied the allegation. In the wake of a tribute to Allen at the 2014 Golden Globes, Mia Farrow and her son with Woody Allen, Ronan Farrow, went on the offensive, tweeting and retweeting allegations that Woody had sexually assaulted Dylan, who recently wrote a piece airing her accusations in the New York Times. Mia Farrow also hinted in an interview that Ronan could be Frank Sinatra’s son and not Woody Allen’s child.

–”I naïvely thought the accusation would be dismissed out of hand because of course, I hadn’t molested Dylan and any rational person would see the ploy for what it was. Common sense would prevail. After all, I was a 56-year-old man who had never before (or after) been accused of child molestation.”

–”I pause here for a quick word on the Ronan situation. Is he my son or, as Mia suggests, Frank Sinatra’s? Granted, he looks a lot like Frank with the blue eyes and facial features, but if so what does this say? That all during the custody hearing Mia lied under oath and falsely represented Ronan as our son? Even if he is not Frank’s, the possibility she raises that he could be, indicates she was secretly intimate with him during our years. Not to mention all the money I paid for child support. Was I supporting Frank’s son? Again, I want to call attention to the integrity and honesty of a person who conducts her life like that.”

–”Of course, I did not molest Dylan. I loved her and hope one day she will grasp how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother more interested in her own festering anger than her daughter’s well-being. Being taught to hate your father and made to believe he molested you has already taken a psychological toll on this lovely young woman, and Soon-Yi and I are both hoping that one day she will understand who has really made her a victim and reconnect with us, as Moses has, in a loving, productive way. ”

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